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FavBackup
In the age of Google we depend on our Web browsers--and on all the features which make them so efficient to use. Personal settings and data such as bookmarks, history, cookies, and saved passwords are essential to productivity. FavBackup (free) recognizes the importance of such data and offers an easy and comprehensive way to back it all up. Perhaps even more useful, you can use the program to migrate settings to a browser on a different computer.

The ghost in the machine: 3 disk imaging apps
Imaging can help you preserve all your hard drive data by making a copy of all the populated sectors. We look at 3 backup apps that offer imaging features.

Supply Chain Data on Holiday 2009 Hotties
New supply-chain import data analyzed by Panjiva, as well its new Trends product, shows who's hot and who's not this holiday gift-giving season. Watch out kiddos: Coal imports are on the rise!

When the Backup Drive Gets Full
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Deep dive: SAN and NAS virtualization
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A Practical Approach to Protecting Trade Secrets
Trade secrets are increasingly becoming a company's most valuable assets, and not surprisingly, threats to those assets have increased concomitantly. The greatest threat to company data is, of course, not outsiders but a company's own employees A company's ability to protect against rogue employees (as well as against unintentional harm) is governed by both federal and state laws, which vary by jurisdiction and, worse, are in a state of flux in many of those jurisdictions.

Business interruptus: Prep now to avoid H1N1 flu outages later
Even a mild H1N1 outbreak could disable IT departments on short notice. Are you ready to assist employees before, during and after the swine flu hits?

Cloud computing Part 2: Don't be blinded by the hype
Hype is a marketer's dream and IT's nightmare. While it helps the former generate excitement, it often obscures reality for the latter. Cloud computing is the latest case in point. The hype would have you believe the cloud is the entire answer when in reality it is just part of the solution.

The Struggle With DLP
Few security technologies have received as much attention over the past few years as Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) solutions have. The concept behind them is exciting, offering the ability to scan traffic on your network and in your systems, and assign rules-based protections to the data that you want to protect. Someone e-mailing out a copy of customer records with SSNs? The DLP system will block it or encrypt it on the fly. Someone trying to copy IP to a USB drive? Alert management and block the action. It can be a great way to protect your most critical information assets, but as many have found, it is not an end-all, be-all solution to your data leakage problems.

The Craziness Pandemic, Part I
Gibbs has spotted a new pandemic sweeping the globe and there's no swine or birds involved; this one is an outbreak of craziness and the Japanese airline ANA appears to have had a bad case of it …

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